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List of most expensive paintings in the world
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This is a list of most expensive paintings in the world (currently). The paintings are very expensive when changing hands always sold by auction valuable items such as Sotheby's or Christie's.
Most of the paintings in the world's most famous museum is owned by, which is very rare that they sell back. In the event of sale by the museum, normally sky-high prices.
For example the Mona Lisa would be sold, the selling price will be far above the price of the paintings on the following list.
The Guinness Book of Records put the Mona Lisa with the highest insurance value for a painting throughout history. Insurance value is set at about U.S. $ 100 million on December 14, 1962, before exhibiting the picture was taken around the USA for several months.
If inflation taken into account, this price will rise above U.S. $ 670 million (6.7 Trillion Rupiah) in 2006.
Louvre Museum in Paris, where the Mona Lisa was now prefer to spend a lot of money for paintings that storage security is this extraordinary, rather than sell it.

List of highest price of the painting auction results :

1. "Garçon à la pipe" by Pablo Picasso. Sold for U.S. $ 104.1 million on May 4, 2004 at Sotheby's, New York (current value: U.S. $ 106,910,700.00)

2. "Portrait of Dr. Gachet " by Vincent van Gogh. Sold for U.S. $ 82.5 million on May 15, 1990 at Christie's, New York (current value: U.S. $ 116,793,226.33)

3. "Bal au Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Sold for U.S. $ 78 million on May 17, 1990 at Sotheby's, New York (current value: U.S. $ 110,422,686.71)
4. "Irises" by Vincent van Gogh. Sold for U.S. $ 49 million on November 11, 1987 at Sotheby's, New York (current value: U.S. $ 78,402,796.71)

5. "Massacre of the Innocents" by Peter Paul Rubens. UK Sold for £ 49.5 million (U.S. $ 76.7 million) on July 10, 2002 at Sotheby's, London (The present value: U.S. $ 77,927,200.00)

6. "Les Noces de Pierrette" by Pablo Picasso. Sold for U.S. $ 49 million on November 30, 1989 (present value: U.S. $ 72,697,766.77)

7. "Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe" by Vincent van Gogh. Sold for U.S. $ 65 million on November 19, 1998 at Christie's, New York (current value: $ 71,691,040.02)

8. "Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier" by Paul Cézanne. Sold for U.S. $ 60.5 million on May 10, 1999 at Sotheby's, New York (later resold at a loss)

9. "Femme aux Bras Croisés" by Pablo Picasso. Sold for U.S. $ 50 million on 8 November 2000 at Christie's, New York (current value: U.S. $ 52,851,507.20)
.. and many more